Monday, March 13, 2017

We're all doomed

I've been forced to listen to Rachel Maddow a couple of times a day, then listen to her admirers parrot her nonsense. I've always been repulsed by her. She can't talk about killing people without smirking.

The Democrats are at risk of making the rest of their already frail
political agenda, such as it is, collateral damage in their pursuit of a
collective fantasy, a mad quest to find ghostly Russian agents inside
the House of Trump. No amateur spy hunter has been more intrepid than
the Walter Winchell of MSDNC, Rachel Maddow, who has rebranded her
nightly show “The Russian Connection.” For two months now, Maddow
(annual salary: $7 million) has been spinning nightly sagas of Russian
espionage that twist and turn through the dark labyrinths of Washington
and end where they began: nowhere. Predictably, Maddow’s audience is
swelling as numbed Democrats, still dazed by Hillary’s defeat, tune in
hoping for some kind of explosive revelation that will explain the
inexplicable from these paranoid potboilers, which often cast the CIA in
the most unlikely role of victim.

I fear our long national hangover is just commencing. The deeper the
Democrats descend into the Russian rabbit hole, the farther they remove
themselves from the working-class people whose defection cost them the
election and the longer the odds grow that they will ever revitalize
their party as a real oppositional force to the reactionary freight
train bearing down upon them.

Trump has probably had the worst start to a presidency since William
Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia only 32 days after taking the
oath. But by all measures the Democrats have fared even worse than the
president, and rightfully so. Since Trump’s win, and despite relentless
attempts to invalidate his victory, there has been a steady attrition of
support for the Democratic Party. The Democrats are now less liked
(35%) and more hated (50%) than Trump (44%/47%) and by a fairly wide
margin, according to a recent Suffolk poll.